Lorna Tolentino arrived at the press conference with a smileand feeling game to answer all the questions from the media yesterday November 20,at Annabel’s Restaurant in Tomas Morato, Quezon City.

Her newest Poten-Cee endorsement featured a video of Lornatelling how she feels being the wife of a cancer patient, actor Rudy Fernandez. Also in the video, Lorna encouraged the peopleto take medicine to prevent cancer and other diseases.

The actress admitted that when they shot the video, Lornafelt what other people called “kirot sa puso” in each of her lines. She explained, “Kumbaga, pinagdaraanan yungmga sinabi ko [sa video]. Actually,maingat na maingat nga kami sa mga dapat naming sabihin.

Lorna does not have a TV commercial for the said productyet. The video was just a clip fromLorna’s statement about the product’s advocacy—healthy living. Pascual Laboratories, makers of AscorbicAcid Poten-Cee, said that this is just a viral video that will be passed onto several people and will be uploaded in some video-hosting sites.

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HOLDING UP. Since Lorna talked about cancer in herlatest endorsement, the media could not avoid asking about the latest conditionof her husband who is, as they openly tell in their interviews, suffering froma rare kind of cancer, the periampullary cancer.

This type forms near the ampulla of Vater, an enlargement ofthe ducts from the liver and pancreas where they join and enter the smallintestines. Rudy is currently havinghis radiation treatment at the Cancer Center of the Cardinal Santos MedicalCenter in San Juan.

After talking about Rudy’s current condition, the media daredto ask the actress how they are holding up financially. Lorna stopped for a moment and answered,smiling, “I have so many rich friends.”She then laughed out loud, “Gusto mo ’yon? ‘We have so many rich friends.’ Ang dami-daming kaibigan, angdami-daming tao [na tumutulong].”